Winner 'Best Arab Cuisine Book' – Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2016Palestine on a Plate showcases the wide-ranging, vibrant and truly delicious dishes of Palestine, introducing the reader to traditional methods, cooking styles and flavours. Palestinian food is not just about street-food dishes – it is about the home, where families cook and eat together every day in a way that generations before them have always done. In this book celebrated chef Joudie Kalla pays tribute to family, cooking and home by taking inspiration from the rich heritage of Palestinian cooking. Cooked with the ingredients that Joudie’s mother and grandmother use, and their grandmothers before them, experience the flavours of Palestine through:
Colourful, stunning photography evoking the vibrancy and romance of the country will bring Palestine into your home and make you fall in love with this wonderful way of cooking and enjoying food.
Joudie Kalla is the author of the best selling Palestine on a Plate (Jacqui Small, 2016) and has been working as a chef in London for over 17 years. Of Palestinian descent, she trained at the prestigious Leith's School of Food and Wine and has worked at restaurants such as Pengelley's, Daphne's and Papillon. She has been running her own private catering company for over eight years and ran a hugely popular deli, Baity Kitchen, for three years.